Re: What kind of sights/things hit you deeply?
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 10:58 pm
Sorry about your dad manwolf89 wrote:Nah you're straight up lying to yourself here. When you were not existing before being born you obviously didn't feel or know anything but that doesn't mean that death is not something to be scared of. The thing is that now you are alive you can be aware of what will be lost if you die. If you die none of the things you enjoy, feel or think about will ever be experienced again. I'm terrified of dying because that'll be it. None of the stuff ahead of me will be there any more just an empty void. You must truly hate your life if you would be fine with it suddenly stopping and you no longer experiencing anything any more. Don't you want to experience as much as you can?rockonin wrote:Lye Form wrote:I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
TBH the fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time
Slightly plagiarised postYou hit the nail on head there.
I guess this relates to something I'd identify as something that has had a massive impact on my life and that would be that I was the one who found my dad's body when he died in the night of a heart attack when I was five. I guess I've been aware since of the fact that suddenly that can be it. Out of nowhere everything could be taken from you at any time before you're ready to be finished and that when someone dies that's it. Someone important to you can be gone from existence just from moment to moment. I spent the weekend over at my gran's house recently when she was dying too and again it's weird to mark that moment where someone who was a big part of your life has gone. With her it was slower too. On the friday she was conscious and knew she was going, Saturday she was on a morphine driver and so we could say things to her but she wasn't responding and then Sunday gone. Very weird being completely aware of each stage happening to someone who was a big part of your life from awake to unconscious to a body being in the room to an empty bed just over three days.
its actually a mash up of two mark twain quotes not me btw*
being prepared does not = wishing for it. The wishing for death thing is fucking retarded and insulting to people who's lives were cut short. The point is you should appreciate the life you have rather than think its something you think it owed to you or accept it as standard. Accepting that you can die at any time and therefore not fear it (as there is fuck all you can do therefore futile) and just do everything you want to as often as you can before the ride is up.
Dont get me wrong, Its not easy to accept though, most people don't even seriously consider their mortality until they reach their 30s+ or have a health scare, then you either face up to the fact or waste the rest of their life worrying about the inevitable which is far worse.
